The captives are recovered,

JEREMIAH. Johanan's request to Jeremiah.

shaven, and their clothes rent, and having habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethcut themselves, with offerings and incense lehem, to go to enter into Egypt, in their hand, to bring them to the house of 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they the LORD. were afraid of them, because Ishmael the 6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon all along as he went: and it came to pass, made governor in the land. as he met them, he said unto them, Come

to

Gedaliah the son of Ahikaney came into

the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son

HEN all

CHAP. XLII.

and Johathe captains of the forces, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into people from the least even unto the greatthe midst of the pit, he, and the men that est, came near, were with him.

2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet,

8 But ten men were found among them Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we accepted before thee, and pray for us unto have treasures in the field, of wheat, and the LORD thy God, even for all this remof barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he nant; (for we are left but a few of many, forbare, and slew them not among their as thine eyes do behold us :) 3 That the LORD thy God may shew us

brethren.

9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast the way wherein we may walk, and the all the dead bodies of the men, whom he thing that we may do. had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray king of Israel and Ishmael the son of Ne- unto the LORD your God according to your thaniah filled it with them that were slain. words; and it shall come to pass, that

10 Then Ishmael carried away captive whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer all the residue of the people that were in you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all nothing back from you.

the people that remained in Mizpah, whom 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had LORD be a true and faithful witness be committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: tween us, if we do not even according to and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried all things for the which the LORD thy God them away captive, and departed to go shall send thee to us. over to the Ammonites.

6 Whether it be good, or whether it be 11 ¶ But when Johanan the son of Ka- evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD reah, and all the captains of the forces that our God, to whom we send thee; that it were with him, heard of all the evil that may be well with us, when we obey the Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, voice of the LORD our God.

12 Then they took all the men, and 7 And it came to pass after ten days, went to fight with Ishmael the son of Ne- that the word of the LORD came unto thaniah, and found him by the great waters Jeremiah.

that are in Gibeon.

8 Then called he Johanan the son of 13 Now it came to pass, that when all Kareah, and all the captains of the forces the people which were with Ishmael saw which were with him, and all the people Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the from the least even to the greatest, captains of the forces that were with him, 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the then they were glad. LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent 14 So all the people that Ishmael had me to present your supplication before him; carried away captive from Mizpah cast 10 If ye will still abide in this land, about and returned, and went unto Joha- then will I build you, and not pull you nan the son of Kareah. down, and I will plant you, and not pluck 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah you up: for I repent me of the evil that I escaped from Johanan with eight men, have done unto you. and went to the Ammonites.

11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, 16 Then took Johanan the son of Ka- of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, reah, and all the captains of the forces that saith the LORD: for I am with you, to save were with him, all the remnant of the peo- you, and to deliver you from his hand. ple whom he had recovered from Ishmael 12 And I will shew mercies unto you, the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he may have mercy upon you, that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahi- cause you to return to your own land. kam, even mighty men of war, and the wo- 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell men, and the children, and the eunuchs, in this land, neither obey the voice of the whom he had brought again from Gibeon: LORD your God,

17 And they departed, and dwelt in the 14 Saying, No; but we will

and

go

into the

Judah's hypocrisy reproved. CHAP. XLIII, XLIV. Conquest of Egypt foretold.

land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, the captains of the forces, and all the peonor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have ple, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to hunger of bread: and there will we dwell: dwell in the land of Judah.

15 And now therefore hear the word of 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus all the captains of the forces, took all the saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; remnant of Judah, that were returned from If ye wholly set your faces to enter into all nations, whither they had been driven, Egypt, and go to sojourn there; to dwell in the land of Judah;

16 Then it shall come to pass, that the 6 Even men, and women, and children, sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you and the king's daughters, and every perthere in the land of Egypt, and the famine, son that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close guard had left with Gedaliah the son of after you there in Egypt; and there ye Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah shall die. the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

9 Take great stones in thy hand, and 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in hath been poured forth upon the inhabit- Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; ants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the poured forth upon you, when ye shall en- LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, ter into Egypt: and ye shall be an exe- I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the cration, and an astonishment, and a curse, king of Babylon, my servant, and will set and a reproach; and ye shall see this place his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion 19 The LORD hath said concerning over them. you, 0 ye remnant of Judah; go ye not 11 And when he cometh, he shall smite into Egypt: know certainly that I have the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are admonished you this day. for death to death; and such as are for

no more.

20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, captivity to captivity; and such as are for when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, the sword to the sword.

saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses God; and according unto all that the LORD of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn our God shall say, so declare unto us, and them, and carry them away captives: and we will do it. he shall array himself with the land of 21 And now I have this day declared it Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garto you; but ye have not obeyed the voice ment; and he shall go forth from thence in of the LORD your God, nor any thing for peace. the which he hath sent me unto you.

13 He shall break also the images of 22 Now therefore know certainly that Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians and by the pestilence, in the place shall he burn with fire.

whither

ye desire to go and to sojourn.
CHAP. XLIII.

CHAP. XLIV.

AND it came to pass, that when Jere- THE word that came to Jeremiah con

cerning all the Jews which dwell in miah had made an end of speaking the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, unto all the people all the words of the LORD and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in their God, for which the LORD their God the country of Pathros, saying, had sent him to them, even all these words, 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God 2 Then spake Azariah the son of Ho- of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I shaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, the cities of Judah; and behold, this day Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth hath not sent thee to say, Go not into therein; Egypt to sojourn there:

3 Because of their wickedness which

3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth they have committed to provoke me to anthee on against us, for to deliver us into ger, in that they went to burn incense, and the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might to serve other gods, whom they knew not, put us to death, and carry us away captives neither they, ye, nor your fathers. into Babylon. 4 Howbeit, I sent unto you all my ser 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all vants the prophets, rising early and send

The desolation of Judah.

JEREMIAH.
ing them, saying, Oh, do not this abomina-]
ble thing that I hate.

5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear to turn from their wickedness, to
burn no incense unto other gods.

The Jews are threatened. 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken not hearken unto thee. unto us in the name of the LORD, we will

17 But we will certainly do whatsoever 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger burn incense unto the queen of heaven, thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to was poured forth, and was kindled in the and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusa- as we have done, we, and our fathers, our lem; and they are wasted and desolate, kings, and our princes, in the cities of Juas at this day. 7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, then had we plenty of victuals, and were dah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for the God of hosts, the God of Israel; well, and saw no evil. Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and to the queen of heaven, and to pour out 18 But since we left off to burn incense woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted to leave you none to remain; 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with sword and by the famine. all things, and have been consumed by the the works of your hands, burning incense

unto other gods in the land of Egypt, queen of heaven, and poured out drink19 And when we burned incense to the whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might offerings unto her, did we make her cakes cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a to worship her, and pour out drink-offercurse and a reproach among all the nations ings unto her, without our men?

of the earth?

20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the

9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of people, to the men, and to the women, your fathers, and the wickedness of the and to all the people which had given him kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their that answer, saying, wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they cities of Judah, and in the streets of Je21 The incense that ye burned in the have committed in the land of Judah, and rusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings in the streets of Jerusalem? land, did not the LORD remember them, and your princes, and the people of the and came it not into his mind?

10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

22 So that the LORD could no longer 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of and because of the abominations which ye bear, because of the evil of your doings, hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will have committed; therefore is your land a set my face against you for evil, and to cut desolation, and an astonishment, and a off all Judah. 12 And I will take the remnant of Jucurse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. dah, that have set their faces to go into the because ye have sinned against the LORD, 23 Because ye have burned incense, and land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they and have not obeyed the voice of the shall all be consumed, and fall in the land LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore the sword and by the famine: they shall this evil is happened unto you, as at this die, from the least even unto the greatest, day. by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration, and an astonish- people, and to all the women, Hear the 24 Moreover, Jeremiah said unto all the ment, and a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt: word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the by the pestilence: have both spoken with your mouths, and

14 So that none of the remnant of Ju- fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will dah, which are gone into the land of Egypt surely perform our vows that we have to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, vowed, to burn incense to the queen of that they should return into the land of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings Judah, to the which they have a desire to unto her ye will surely accomplish your return to dwell there: for none shall return vows, and surely perform your vows. but such as shall escape. 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the

15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of their wives had burned incense unto other Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great gods, and all the women that stood by, a name, saith the LORD, that my name shall great multitude, even all the people that no more be named in the mouth of any dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah, saying, Isaying, The Lord God liveth

:

CHAP. XLV, XLVI.

Baruch is comforted. The conquest of Egypt. 27 Behold, I will watch over them for 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the evil, and not for good and all the men of mighty man escape: they shall stumble, Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall and fall toward the north by the river be consumed by the sword and by the fa- Euphrates. mine, until there be an end of them.

Who is this that cometh up as a flood, 28 Yet a small number that escape the whose waters are moved as the rivers? sword shall return out of the land of Egypt 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his into the land of Judah; and all the remnant waters are moved like the rivers; and he of Judah, that are gone into the land of saith, I will go up, and will cover the Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose earth; I will destroy the city and the inword shall stand, mine, or theirs. habitants thereof.

29 And this shall be a sign unto you, 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye saith the LORD, that I will punish you in chariots; and let the mighty men come this place, that ye may know that my forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, words shall surely stand against you forevil: that handle the shield; and the Lydians, 30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will that handle and bend the bow. give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into 10 For this is the day of the Lord God the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may of them that seek his life; as I gave Ze-avenge him of his adversaries: and the dekiah king of Judah into the hand of sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his and made drunk with their blood: for the enemy, and that sought his life.

CHAP. XLV.

TH
HE word that Jeremiah the prophet
spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
when he had written these words in a book
at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, saying,

2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

3 Thou didst say, Wo is me now! fr the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Lord GoD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

:

12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and 4 ¶ Thus shalt thou say unto him, The smite the land of Egypt. LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in have built will I break down, and that Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahwhich I have planted I will pluck up, even panhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare this whole land. thee; for the sword shall devour round

5 And seekest thou great things for thy-about thee. self? seek them not: for behold, I will 15 Why are thy valiant men swept bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: away? they stood not, because the LORD but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey did drive them. in all places whither thou goest.

CHAP. XLVI.

16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and HE word of the LORD which came to let us go again to our own people, and to

THE of et against the the land of our nativity, from the oppress

Gentiles;

ing sword.

17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the is The LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is son of Josiah king of Judah. among the mountains, and as Carmel by

3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and the sea, so shall he come. draw near to battle.

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye furnish thyself to go into captivity: for horsemen, and stand forth with your hel- Noph shall be waste and desolate without mets; furbish the spears, and put on the an inhabitant.

brigandines.

20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismay-destruction cometh; it cometh out of the ed and turned away back? and their north.

mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled 21 Also her hired men are in the midst apace, and look not back: for fear was of her like fatted bullocks; for they also round about, saith the LORD. are turned back, and are fled away toge

Destruction of the Philistines.

JEREMIAH.

The judgment of Moab ther they did not stand, because the day will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself of their calamity was come upon them, into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. and the time of their visitation. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD 22 The voice thereof shall go like a ser-hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, pent; for they shall march with an army, and against the sea shore? there hath he and come against her with axes, as hewers appointed it. of wood.

CHAP. XLVIII.

23 They shall cut down her forest, saith AGAINST Moab thus saith the LORD the LORD, though it cannot be searched; of the God of Israel; Wo unto because they are more than the grasshop- Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is pers, and are innumerable. confounded and taken: Misgab is con24 The daughter of Egypt shall be con- founded and dismayed. founded; she shall be delivered into the 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: hand of the people of the north. in Heshbon they have devised evil against 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Is-it; come, and let us cut it off from being rael, saith; Behold, I will punish the mul- a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, 0 titude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant. saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

CHAP. XLVII.

3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

5 For in the going up of Luhith con tinual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

7¶ For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures. thou shalt also be taken : and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell

HE word of the LORD that came to therein.

Teremiah the prophet against the
Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote

Gaza.

10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters 11 Moab hath been at ease from his rise up out of the north, and shall be an youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and overflowing flood, and shall overflow the hath not been emptied from vessel to res land, and all that is therein; the city, and sel, neither hath he gone into captivity: them that dwell therein: then the men therefore his taste remained in him, and shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the his scent is not changed.

land shall howl. 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, 3 At the noise of the stamping of the saith the LORD, that I will send unto him hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of wanderers that shall cause him to wander, his chariots, and at the rumbling of his and shall empty his vessels, and break wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their bottles. their children for feebleness of hands;

13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Che4 Because of the day that cometh to mosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from of Beth-el their confidence. Tyrus and Zidon every helper that re- 14 ¶ How say ye, We are mighty and maineth for the LORD will spoil the strong men for the war? Philistines, the remnant of the country of 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of Caphtor. her cities, and his chosen young men are 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashke-gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, lon is cut off with the remnant of their val- whose name is The LORD of hosts. ley how long wilt thou cut thyself? 16 The calamity of Moab is near to 60 thou sword of the LORD, how long come, and his affliction hasteth fast.